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⚡Breaking ... Mick Mulvaney, acting White House chief of staff, made it clear in a meeting this year that President Trump equates preparation for Russian interference in the 2020 election with questions about his own legitimacy, per the N.Y. Times.

"Mulvaney said it 'wasn’t a great subject and should be kept below his level.'"

Microsoft, the original tech giant, has managed to stay mostly above the fray while the rest of the industry endures a backlash over its practices and impact, Axios managing editor Kim Hart writes.

Why it matters: Microsoft, which trudged through its own antitrust battle with the Justice Department in the '90s, has sidestepped the mistakes made by its younger, brasher Big Tech brethren.

The resource-sucking trial set Microsoft behind competitors like Google on crucial innovations like search. Now, though, the lessons Microsoft learned the hard way are making its life easier.

The Axios-Harris Poll 100 survey found that companies untouched by scandal, including Microsoft, have prospered in the eyes of consumers. Companies most heavily affected by privacy-related scandals faced steep erosions in trust:

Jared Kushner is cooking up immigration legislation that would increase the number of high-skilled workers entering the U.S., and decrease the number of migrants coming based on family ties, administration and Hill sources tell Axios' Jonathan Swan, Stef Kight and Alayna Treene.

In private briefings, Kushner calls the plan "neutral," meaning it would neither raise nor lower the overall number of legal immigrants.

After getting prison reform signed into law in December, Kushner has spent months trying to find an immigration compromise — a goal that has eluded both parties for many years.

Why it matters: This is President Trump casting Jared as peacemaker again, as he did with the Middle East.

Jared’s ideology is almost irrelevant — he tries to be the "pragmatic," business-minded problem solver.

Kushner said yesterday in New York, during an onstage interview with TIME's Brian Bennett, that he will present a comprehensive immigration reform plan to Trump by early next week.

Kushner faces an uphill battle, even internally. He joked to TIME that if he can get White House hardliner Stephen Miller and Kevin Hassett, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, to agree on a plan, "then Middle East peace will be easy by comparison."

The bottom line: Like with Middle East peace, we're yet to speak to anyone who sees Kushner's plan coming to fruition. There's certainly no optimism on the Hill.

Trump wants to build a wall, speed deportations and make it harder for people to seek asylum in the U.S.

Democrats want none of those things.

Most Republicans on the Hill have no idea what’s in the plan. Here's the gist:

The Islamic State said it was responsible for Easter attacks on churches and high-end hotels in Sri Lanka that killed 359 and wounded more than 50o.

Police have identified eight out of nine attackers — one of whom was a woman — with no foreigners among them. (BBC)

7. Google wins first FAA approval for regular drone delivery

What's new: Wing Aviation — a unit of Google's parent, Alphabet — received the first U.S. authorization to operate a fleet of drones for consumer-goods deliveries, The Wall Street Journal's Andy Pasztor reports (subscription).

The FAA approval covers daylight hours in a rural area around Blacksburg, Va. — home of Virginia Tech, a partner in the project.

Wing now will "survey residents and local businesses about the types of food, medicines and other goods that might be carried."

Why it matters: The decision is a "coup for Wing in a budding, fiercely competitive industry. Amazon ... and other companies are vying for similar approvals."

"[U]nmanned aircraft will travel over longer distances than are now typically permitted for carrying payloads, and ... fly beyond ... sight of operators — issues at the heart of delivering goods and packages directly to consumers."

What's new: Health officials say that close quarters, and the age group least likely to be vaccinated, leave college campuses vulnerable as breeding grounds for contagion, the L.A. Times' Soumya Karlamanglareports.

"People who are now in their early 20s are part of what's known as the 'Wakefield generation.'"

They were "infants in 1998 when British scientist Andrew Wakefield published a now discredited paper claiming that vaccines cause autism."

Why it matters: "That has left a large pool of young people especially vulnerable to infections."

9. Leisure read

Bill Weld, photographed by Dolly Faibyshev/Redux at a diner in Nashua, N.H., on April 16. (By kind permission of The New York Times)

[H]oldouts of the battered G.O.P. establishment had, for now at least, gathered in [former Massachusetts Gov. Bill] Weld’s slim lifeboat. Stuart Stevens, just two presidential election cycles removed from being Mitt Romney’s chief strategist in 2012, is advising Weld and accompanied him in New Hampshire. Jennifer Horn, a two-time congressional candidate and the former New Hampshire Republican chairwoman, is running his communications. Cullen and his wife, Jenny, opened their home to Weld and 80 or so supportive guests, what you might call Whole Foods Republicans.

"Get swole, prepare a bug-out bag, grab a go-cup and maybe you’ll have a better chance of surviving the omnicide."

"Translation: Hit the gym and bulk up, put a bunch of stuff essential for survival in an easy-to-carry bag, grab a drink for the road, and perhaps you’ll live through a man-made disaster that could wipe out the human race."